diff --git a/test/integration-tests/TEST-76-SYSCTL/meson.build b/test/integration-tests/TEST-76-SYSCTL/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 8dec5f37e7..0000000000
--- a/test/integration-tests/TEST-76-SYSCTL/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
-
-integration_tests += [
-        integration_test_template + {
-                'name' : fs.name(meson.current_source_dir()),
-        },
-]
diff --git a/test/integration-tests/meson.build b/test/integration-tests/meson.build
index 5965f6646c..5d71e87c79 100644
--- a/test/integration-tests/meson.build
+++ b/test/integration-tests/meson.build
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ foreach dirname : [
         'TEST-73-LOCALE',
         'TEST-74-AUX-UTILS',
         'TEST-75-RESOLVED',
-        'TEST-76-SYSCTL',
         'TEST-78-SIGQUEUE',
         'TEST-79-MEMPRESS',
         'TEST-80-NOTIFYACCESS',
diff --git a/test/units/TEST-76-SYSCTL.sh b/test/units/TEST-76-SYSCTL.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 04d89b8252..0000000000
--- a/test/units/TEST-76-SYSCTL.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
-set -eux
-set -o pipefail
-
-# shellcheck source=test/units/util.sh
-. "$(dirname "$0")"/util.sh
-
-export SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug
-
-echo "foo.bar=42" >/tmp/foo.conf
-assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl /tmp/foo.conf
-assert_rc 1 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --strict /tmp/foo.conf
-
-echo "-foo.foo=42" >/tmp/foo.conf
-assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl /tmp/foo.conf
-assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --strict /tmp/foo.conf
-
-if ! systemd-detect-virt --quiet --container; then
-    ip link add hoge type dummy
-    udevadm wait --timeout=30 /sys/class/net/hoge
-
-    cat >/tmp/foo.conf <<EOF
-net.ipv4.conf.*.drop_gratuitous_arp=1
-net.ipv4.*.*.bootp_relay=1
-net.ipv4.aaa.*.disable_policy=1
-EOF
-
-    echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/drop_gratuitous_arp
-    echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/bootp_relay
-    echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/disable_policy
-
-    assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --prefix=/net/ipv4/conf/hoge /tmp/foo.conf
-    assert_eq "$(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/drop_gratuitous_arp)" "1"
-    assert_eq "$(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/bootp_relay)" "1"
-    assert_eq "$(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/disable_policy)" "0"
-fi
-
-touch /testok
diff --git a/test/units/TEST-87-AUX-UTILS-VM.sysctl.sh b/test/units/TEST-87-AUX-UTILS-VM.sysctl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..3bf1317327
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/units/TEST-87-AUX-UTILS-VM.sysctl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+# shellcheck source=test/units/util.sh
+. "$(dirname "$0")"/util.sh
+
+export SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug
+
+echo "foo.bar=42" >/tmp/foo.conf
+assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl /tmp/foo.conf
+assert_rc 1 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --strict /tmp/foo.conf
+
+echo "-foo.foo=42" >/tmp/foo.conf
+assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl /tmp/foo.conf
+assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --strict /tmp/foo.conf
+
+ip link add hoge type dummy
+trap 'ip link del hoge' EXIT
+udevadm wait --timeout=30 /sys/class/net/hoge
+
+cat >/tmp/foo.conf <<EOF
+net.ipv4.conf.*.drop_gratuitous_arp=1
+net.ipv4.*.*.bootp_relay=1
+net.ipv4.aaa.*.disable_policy=1
+EOF
+
+echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/drop_gratuitous_arp
+echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/bootp_relay
+echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/disable_policy
+
+assert_rc 0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --prefix=/net/ipv4/conf/hoge /tmp/foo.conf
+assert_eq "$(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/drop_gratuitous_arp)" "1"
+assert_eq "$(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/bootp_relay)" "1"
+assert_eq "$(cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/hoge/disable_policy)" "0"